Peter Watkins, Watkins

Story of W & Z

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a first-hand account of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780521318754
• ISBN-10: 0521318750
• Artikelnr.: 26184561

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Background: 1. Introduction
2. Inside the atom
3. Quarks and leptons
4. Unification of forces
Part II. The Objective: 5. The experimental test
6. How do we recognise a W or Z boson?
Part III. The Tools for the Search: 7. Accelerators and CERN
8. Detectors
9. The UA1 experiment
Part IV. The Search: 10. Installation and the early runs
11. The search for the W boson
12. The search for the Z boson
13. The search continues
Part V. The Future: 14. What next?
Appendix.